Michele M. Waite Photography The “Winning Hearts and Minds Chocolate Cake” recipe in today’s story on Molly Wizenberg is a deliciously fudgy, melt-in-your-mouth, almost flourless cake. Wizenberg used it (times 20, to be precise) as her wedding cake.
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P-I photo/Andy Rogers I was delighted back in 2007 to see that Molly Wizenberg of Orangette had a book deal with Simon & Schuster. At the time, I mostly figured the book would introduce her to a larger audience and be a handy bound collection for people familiar with her artful blog.
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Executive Chef Eric Donnelly is leaving The Oceanaire, with exciting plans for a new restaurant that he describes as a “French Quarter playground” sort of place, neighborhood-focused and approachable, but sizzling with a fun atmosphere and good New Orleans-style food.
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Don Curtiss at Volterra dropped me a line to let me know that Rachael Ray’s Seattle edition of “Rachael’s Vacation” will air at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 1. (All You Can Eat had the dish back in August when Ray visited town.)
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At first, I didn’t believe it. There’s no general reason Martha Stewart shouldn’t be on Twitter, I guess, with everyone in the food world from Ruth Reichl to Mark Bittman taking the tweet plunge this month. The details just seemed odd in a hoaxy way: Would the real Martha use “lot’s” when she meant to say “lots” in one of her first tweets? And she was only following a handful of people, which made sense, but… Snoop Dogg? Perez Hilton?!
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